Privacy

Effective July 30, 2026

Vote is built to need almost nothing from you. There are no accounts. Your address is never stored. Your picks never leave your device. This page spells out exactly what that means.

Your address

To find your ballot, you enter a street address once. It is used for the duration of that single request to look up your voting districts, and no longer: we forward it to public government geocoding services — the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder, the State of California’s district maps, and Los Angeles County and City boundary services — and we never write it to a database or a log. What comes back, and all we keep, is a bundle of district numbers shared by thousands of voters: your ZIP code, county, and district IDs.

The one cookie

That district bundle is saved in a single cookie on your device so your ballot loads on your next visit. It contains district IDs only — never your address. Entering a new address replaces it, and clearing your browser’s cookies removes it.

Your picks stay on your device

The choices you mark, contests you skip, your reading-size preference, content filters, and your self-reported registration status are stored in your browser’s local storage. They are never transmitted to us or anyone else. Clearing your browser’s site data erases them.

Hosting and analytics

The site is hosted on Vercel, which processes standard web-server information (like IP addresses) to serve pages, under Vercel’s privacy policy. We use Vercel Web Analytics for aggregate, anonymized page-view counts — it sets no cookies and does not track you across sites. We run no ads and no third-party trackers.

What we never do

We do not sell or share personal information. We do not build profiles. We cannot see how you plan to vote — that information exists only on your device.

Support payments

If you choose to support the project, checkout is handled entirely by Stripe on Stripe’s own pages under Stripe’s privacy policy. We never see or store your card details.

Links to other sites

We link out to official election sites (like sos.ca.gov and lavote.gov). Those sites operate under their own privacy policies.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the effective date above changes with it. Questions — or a discrepancy between this page and how the site behaves — go to nicole@meetjury.com.